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This Was The First Fighter Plane Of The United States Of America. A Plane Rejected By The French And Full Of Bugs. It Shed Its Upper Wing Fabric In Fast Dives And With Leaky Fuel Tubing Caught Fire In The Air. Yet In These Planes The Americans Over Chateau-Thierry Met Germanys Top Aces Flying Their Best Fighters. The Fokker D-7. Shown Is Lt. Wanamaker From Akron, Ohio About To Shoot Down The 3 German Ace, Lt. Lowenhardt Flying A Yellow Fokker Chasing Another American Nieuport, When Germanys Top Ace Udet In A Candy Stripe Fokker Shot Him Down Wounded. He Survived The War And Became An Ohio Judge. Lowenhardt Died In An Air Collusion With 53 Victories. Udet Did Survive The War With 62 Victories Only To Later Become The Nazi German Chief Of Air Dev. He Committed Suicide.